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How Not To Do A Flashback #9

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Contributed by Terotrous of

Phalanx says:

Self-insertion is a gimmick that should be very carefully handled in any comic. Most of the time it irritates the hell out of your readers.

Also see Mary-Suism.

Terotrous says:

Although I yet to ever come across this, I'd love
to see an anime-style "last time" strip in an actual comic.
It's just such an incredibly stupid idea when your audience
could just go back and read it themselves.
The character also seems to be unusually happy in the first panel
when the whole comic seems to be about bad stuff happening to him.


mcDuffies says:

These are some of the most cliched and overused situations (well, the one with father is not really, but it's been parodied and mocked to the point of beating the dead horse). I actually like the way he presented them here, because he could really make it a month long recap. There could be a hint hidden: sustain from telling what's already been told; Like, flashback on things that happened in the comic.
I often find a story in webcomics too slow: like, a few years of webcomics, describing what happened in one single day (with a lot of conversations that don't mean nothing to me). But that might just be me.